Recently displaced former WaPo blogger Dave Weigel is joining MSNBC as a "contributor," which is nice and everything but not really a real full time gig, it's just a media consolation prize they give out to just about everybody (except us).

Two reporters in London won a settlement from the police there after cops treated them rudely as they tried to cover a protest. The greatest indignity: a reporter "almost had his half-smoked cigarette swiped from his mouth." That is tantamount to setting every publishing house on fire, sirs.

Guess how many copies of his novel Glenn Beck has sold so far? 132,000. What did you do last week?